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Title: The Candle Cafe Cookbook: More Than 150 Enlightened Recipes from New York's Renowned Vegan Restaurant by Joy Pierson, Bart Potenza, Barbara Scott-Goodman ISBN: 0-609-80981-4 Publisher: Clarkson N Potter Publishers Pub. Date: 22 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: How to get the vegans in your life to love you
Comment: I can't stress how incredibly generous the authors are for giving us their best recipes from this wonderful restaurant in NY. This is a great cookbook for people who love to cook vegan food. Whether you are an old-time vegan, new vegetarian or an omnivore that likes to eat some plant based meals, you will find great recipes. Standouts include the innovative sandwiches section (overlooked by many veg cookbooks), the appetizers section and the desserts section. Candle Café makes the best vegan chocolate cake anywhere and they have included the recipe. The grilled tofu club is another winner. The vegan French toast is the perfect item to make for a brunch.
The closest comparison I can make to this cookbook is Millennium. It is great to have cookbooks that you know you can make anything for the first time and it will be great. This book succeeds in the major failing of Millennium: ingredients in this book are easier to obtain by the average person not living in CA.
Minor nits- Water is never on the ingredients list so if you want to ensure that you did not forget any of the ingredients, you have to carefully reread the recipe. Some of the recipes have 22 ingredients which reduces the chances that you will have the ingredients on hand if you have not planned ahead or that I will ever go the amount of trouble to get those ingredients.
If you want to cook up a gourmet vegan feast or just impress the vegans in your life, this is the book for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Cookbook Perfection
Comment: Such a wonderful book! Living in the Midwest (in "America's Dairyland" no less!), I often feel isolated as an aspiring vegan. I try to teach others the value of veganism by example. Feeding them vegan foods is probably the best way to show others that one can not only easily sustain oneself without eggs, cow's milk, or animal flesh foods, veganism allows one to have so many more exciting options available for food choices than the "traditional" American diet. This book has been instrumental in helping me with this.
Everything I've made from tnis book has been superb. The recipes are simple, and the ingredients are easy to find. None of the recipes are intimidating, thus allowing the everyday cook to exercise creative license with the recipes. For example, with the Roasted Corn-Pumpkin Seed Relish, I roasted the onion and celery along with the corn at the end of the baking time, wrapped the mix with greens in a tortilla shell, and this quickly became a complete meal. (One of my favorite recipes is for Brownies which calls for, of all things, a roasted beet! My co-workers also gave this, along with everything else, rave reviews!)
There is a great variety of recipes, from appetizers to desserts. There is a section of colored pictures to demonstrate just how beautiful the food presents itself (and to give the cook ideas for presentation). The book is laid out in a sensible format (the start of each section lists all the recipes, and page number for the recipe, within the section), and the index is cross-referenced so there is never any difficulty in finding a recipe.
Everything about this book is perfect. I look forward to using this book for many years to come and have already bought several copies to give as Christmas gifts.
Rating: 5
Summary: Loved It
Comment: I loved cooking these recipes for my husband. And he loved eating them. Yummmmm.
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